Top 3 places you CAN'T GO & people who went anyways... | Part 8

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to film himself swimming through the arch but now it was looking like that probably wasn't going to happen the arch is an 85 foot long underwater tunnel that connects a massive sinkhole right onto hobb's shoreline called the blue hole to the red sea to get to the arch you need to enter the blue hole directly and descend straight down 181 feet where you'll reach the top of the tunnel on the northeast side but there's a catch if on your descent you happen to miss the ceiling of this arch which apparently it's pretty easy to do you run the risk of going too deep now going too deep does not mean you're going to miss the tunnel altogether the arch actually starts at 181 feet but then goes all the way down to 393 feet so it's a huge huge opening the risk of going too deep has to do with how your body responds to the type of gas you're breathing for those who are unfamiliar with diving generally speaking you have two types of dives there's recreational diving where you breathe the same air that you breathe on the surface they literally jam air directly into scuba bottles you breathe that and you go down to 130 feet that's the recommended bottom depth that you would go down breathing regular air and then there is technical diving where you breathe a special mixture of gases typically it's going to be a mixture of helium nitrogen and oxygen that allow you to go below 130 feet this type of diving is exponentially more dangerous and requires all sorts of additional training because the minimum depth you would need to go to in order to access the arch is 181 feet that puts you well in the technical diving range which means you should be diving mixed gas and have special training and equipment but year after year people try to dive down to the arch and go through it on regular air and year after year people die doing it when your body absorbs too much nitrogen you can get something called nitrogen narcosis which is a lot like being drunk and in extreme cases divers who get this have been known to remove their mouthpiece and inhale water believing they are actually on the surface below 130 feet your body absorbs nitrogen much faster and regular air is a whopping 78 nitrogen so the risk of getting nitrogen narcosis is exponentially higher if you're breathing regular air below 130 feet also oxygen can become toxic the deeper you go in the water column it can lead to blackouts and convulsions that if you don't have someone there to literally physically move you up in the water column you won't recover from it and you'll die regular air contains 21 oxygen which is a lot of oxygen so if you're diving regular air below 130 feet you are at an increased risk of developing o2 toxicity now to be clear it is possible on regular air to dive down to 181 feet and make it through the arch and come out the other side and be just fine but you're realistically at 181 feet pushing the absolute boundary of what you can get away with on regular air below 200 feet you're probably dead so if you're attempting to swim through the arch on regular air you need to be paying very close attention to your depth as you descend so that you don't miss the arch and accidentally drift down below 181 feet to the very deadly 200 feet and beyond so earlier in the day yuri had gone down to the edge of the blue hole and he had found one of the diving instructors that taught inside the blue hole his name was tarik omar and he asked him if he'd be willing to take him down to the arch to help him film himself going through the arch and tarik said yes but i need to train you for two weeks before you're going to be considered qualified to do that and you need a special setup with a special gas mixture to do this dive and yuri was like well i'm leaving in two days to head back to moscow so i need to do this dive now is there any way you can do it today or tomorrow even and tarek was like no that's not how this works and tarek understood this more than anybody else because in addition to teaching diving at the blue hole tarik's job was to dive down to the bottom and retrieve the dead bodies of inexperienced or overconfident divers that attempted the archway and didn't make it although there is not an official body count of how many people have perished inside of the blue hole locals believe it's as high as 200 people just in the last decade after taric was unwilling to take him without properly training him and outfitting him with the right equipment yuri thanked him and went on to a couple different other diving instructors with the same request will you take me in the next couple of days and they all said no we need to train you and you need special equipment and so finally after no one was willing to do this yuri just left later that day owners of cafes that overlooked the blue hole remember seeing a young man who was by himself walked to the edge of the blue hole he puts on all of his scuba gear he puts on a helmet and then straps a big camera to the top and ratchets it down and then after he's got all his stuff on he jumps into the blue hole and he disappears that man was yuri a few days later yuri's family back home in moscow did not see him get off the flight he was supposed to be on and they reported him missing tarik omar was contacted to go down into the blue hole and see if yuri was down there tara hopped in the blue hole he went to the bottom and sure enough lying face down at the bottom was yuri when they brought yuri to the surface they realized his camera had been running the whole time and he had actually filmed his final moments yuri's final video exists online so you can watch it for yourself but here is a description of what happens after situating his camera on his head just the way he wanted it he hit record and then he jumped into the water it was determined later on that yuri was breathing regular air out of his tanks the camera submerges under the water and then yuri begins to sink very quickly into the blue hole but his breathing seems normal and he's not thrashing around so it seems like it's a controlled descent but at some point you hear yuri trying to activate his buoyancy compensator basically it's this life jacket to describe it simply that sits on your gear that you have a demand valve where you can inflate and deflate the air into it to neutralize your buoyancy or in an emergency situation you can fully inflate it and stop yourself from sinking in fact you'll rise to the surface but he's trying to activate his buoyancy compensator to slow down his descent and the air is escaping his compensator there's a leak he can't slow down his descent now yuri was wearing a weight belt which is very common in diving in fact i don't really know of all that many dives that you wouldn't use a weight belt and any diver knows that there is a quick release function on your weight belt specifically if you're in an uncontrolled descent or if you're in an emergency situation and need to get to the surface you can jettison your weight belt and go to the surface but yuri was panicking and he was fixated on his buoyancy compensator that he was desperately trying to activate and it was failing and so he's not going for his weight belt and then he rockets past the entrance to the arch so he goes below 181 feet he goes below 200 feet and he goes all the way to the bottom where he hits the bottom at 392 feet and then he begins to slide because the bottom of the blue hole was actually at an angle and that archway went all the way to the bottom of the hole and if you slipped out of the blue hole it was a sheer drop off for thousands of feet and you see on camera yuri rolls over and he's desperately clawing into the mud to stop himself from sliding out of the blue hole to definite death and he's trying to get himself to stop and finally he anchors himself in the dirt and it's calm for a second and he's kind of looking around it's very clear he's confused and then it goes still and it's believed at this point he either removed his mouthpiece because of nitrogen narcosis you know he pulled it out and inhaled water or he was dealing with o2 toxicity and he blacked out and the mouthpiece came out but either way he drowned situated an hour's drive from johannesburg and south africa lies stark fontine cave the cave is famous for the fossils that have been found there and also for its underground lake whose walls look like swiss cheese there's all these tunnels that spider all over the place many of them are unexplored and no one knows how deep the cave actually goes in 1984 cave diver peter verhussel along with two of his friends decided they wanted to explore these passageways in the lake and specifically they wanted to check out a chamber called milner hall which was fairly far down in the lake there was a guideline that was anchored from the surface of the lake all the way down into the different sections that had been explored and this was so cave divers could hold on to it and make their way through without getting lost not that i've ever been cave diving but from what i've read there is one golden rule you never let go of the guideline and if you do it better be extremely well planned and you should do it with other divers present peter was a notorious risk taker and was the least experienced cave diver of the three when they entered the lake they were all holding the guideline and peter was the third back and so they began descending down into the lake and at some point peter's curiosity got the better of him and he left the line to go look at the wall where there was you know something he wanted to look at and luckily the other two divers noticed it they saw him and they swam over and got him and brought him back to the guideline and even though you can't communicate underwater i'm sure they looked at him like come on don't do that and they kept going down and then once again peter's curiosity gets the better of him he leaves the guideline and goes over and checks something else out the other two divers notice again they turn around they grab him and they pull him back and now they're looking at him like you can't do this no more and so peter's body language indicated that he got it and he's back on the guideline he's not going to do it again and they continue down and they're getting closer to milner hall when the first two turn around to check on peter and he's gone and now previously when they found him those other two times when he left the guideline he was just over right against the wall and he was easy to spot but this time he wasn't they're looking around with their lights and he's nowhere to be found and they're not prepared to go leave into one of these tunnels to go looking for him because there were so many it was like swiss cheese down there with all these different tunnels he could have gone into and they didn't know which one he went in and so after kind of waiting and looking around for a couple of minutes thinking maybe he'll come back they were running out of air and they had to go to the surface so the two men surfaced they call the police they explain what happened rescue divers are sent to the cave to go looking for peter but by the time they even got there it had been several hours it takes a while to mount this type of surge and peter only had one tank of air and so if he hasn't surfaced by now the thought is he's drowned at this point but the rescue divers go into the lake they head down to the area where peter was last seen and they look around and they can't find him and they surface pretty quickly and they say look we're just not prepared to look through all these different tunnels he could have gone in just to find his body because at this point there's no way he's alive he's been down here for hours he doesn't have enough air and one of us one of the rescue divers is going to get trapped in one of these tunnels and we don't want to lose anyone so we're terminating the search peter's friends are devastated and they say hey can you let us go down and look for peter's body for his family and the police said no we're banning diving in this cave six weeks after peter went missing inside of this lake a group of dry cavers were doing some work in a chamber that was right next to this underground lake and they were chiseling this wall when all of a sudden the wall kind of collapsed revealing another chamber on the other side of this wall they took their flashlight out and they looked inside and it looked like a tunnel that kind of weaved around the corner and they shined their light on the ground and it looked like there were some muddy or sandy footprints that were left as if someone had been walking right there the cavers were initially terrified the idea that there's anything living behind the walls inside of a cave but they stepped over and they walked around the corner and it revealed this huge air pocket that clearly was connected to the underground lake because there was water right in the middle of this air pocket and there was no other way in besides you know this wall that's collapsed and in the middle of the water there was this island it was like the sandy muddy rocky island right in the middle of this air pocket and laying on the island was peter in a stroke of luck after peter went missing from his dive he discovered this air pocket and he had surfaced and climbed onto this island he knew he didn't have enough air in his air tank to get to the surface again and so he figured okay i'll just sit on this island there seems to be enough air in here for me i'll wait until my dive buddies invariably go get help and come down here and rescue me he sat inside of that air pocket for three weeks waiting for a rescue that never arrived before he ultimately died of starvation he wrote a message in the sand to his mother and to his wife telling them that he loved them to this day diving is still prohibited inside of stark fontine cave a little after 1 30 in the morning on june 17 2017 34 u.s navy sailors were asleep inside of birthing compartment number two on the uss fitzgerald their birthing compartment was below the water line meaning where they were sleeping was underwater they were sailing along through the south china sea when all of the sudden there is this explosion in the birthing compartment and a rush of cold air the explosion was a 30 000 ton container ship crashing into them gouging an opening in their wall bigger than a semi-truck before any of the 34 sailors could make sense of what was happening tens of thousands of gallons of seawater are pouring into their compartment the sailors were sleeping in what they called coffin lockers which were these bunk beds where the bunks were stacked three high and the lowest bunk was practically on the ground and so as soon as the water came pouring into the room everybody who was sleeping on a lower bunk was immediately completely submerged in water and all the furniture inside of the space was lifted up by the rush of water and a few unlucky sailors who were in those bottom bunks were trapped by furniture that landed right in front of their bunk the sailors immediately jumped into action leaping out of their bunks pulling people out of those lower bunks everybody's trying to help each other out to get to the exit which was a ladder that led up to a hatch in the ceiling the sailors inside of the space were very close with each other pretty much 24 hours a day they were always within a few feet of each other and so that explains why as the water was rising and rising getting up to their necks they formed an orderly line as they all made their way up this ladder through this hatch as they waited in line to get out of the space the water was getting so high that they were tilting their heads to barely be able to breathe the space that was left inside of the room and when the water is really cold you involuntarily open your mouth and so water was pouring into their mouths making it very hard to breathe as each man climbed the ladder and went through the hatch to relative safety they would turn around and help the next guy up and they remembered hearing this hissing sound which was the sound of all the air being forced out of the compartment through this hatch as it filled with seawater and then finally the survivors that had made it out of the hatch were able to pull the last few guys that were in line to go up the ladder they pulled them out and then they realized they're short eight sailors but they're faced with this terrible decision because they need to shut the hatch and seal it it's a procedure inside of a sinking ship to keep it from sinking if they don't shut this compartment they run the risk of killing more people on board the ship and so they decide they're going to wait for a couple of extra seconds and they begin yelling come to the sound of my voice in hopes that anybody that's still down there could hear them through the water and would swim to them and then before they shut it they poked their head down and looked then they saw a glimmer of what looked like a man swimming away from the ladder and they're thinking why are they swimming away don't they know they need to come here and they're yelling to this person come back come back swim to our voice and then moments later this burly sailor from arizona named john mead came out of the darkness and clamored up the ladder and they pull him out and he's coughing and he's gagging and he said gary ream saved me i was behind a locker he pulled me out and it dawned on the two sailors that saw that man swimming away from the ladder farther into the compartment that they had tried to stop that they had tried to to get back to them that wasn't john meade that was gary ream he was intentionally swimming back to save these guys but now in a cruel twist of fate they had to seal the hatch with gary and six others still inside at 37 years old gary rehm was a veteran of the ship he referred to the other sailors as his kids and when they were on land he would invite them over to his house for holiday meals he was approaching 20 years of service and he was planning to retire soon and move back to virginia with his family and become a fireman gary was asleep inside of birthing compartment number two when the crash happened and instead of going up the ladder to safety which he could have done he was near the ladder he instead decided to make multiple trips into the far back section of the compartment which is where the most people were trapped by furniture either in their bunks or in the bathroom stalls and he went back over and over and over again knowing full well that once this water reaches the ceiling they are going to seal the hatch he's been in the navy almost 20 years he knows the procedure but gary loved his kids and he was prepared to die for them and on this day he did 19 of the 27 surviving sailors credit gary for saving their 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Id: ZUkAkMJ9c18

Length: 18min 55sec (1135 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 20 2020